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Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin is the alternative spelling of Rumpelstiltskin.

Meaning of Rumpelstiltskin

Proper noun

Rumpelstiltskin

  1. A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
  2. The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.

Questions about Rumplestiltskin

What is Rumplestiltskin the alternative spelling of?
Rumplestiltskin is the alternative spelling of Rumpelstiltskin.

Words near Rumplestiltskin in the dictionary

  1. rumples
  2. rumples up
  3. rumplesome
  4. rumpless
  5. rumplessness
  6. Rumplestiltskin
  7. rumplier
  8. rumpliest
  9. rumpling
  10. rumpling up
  11. rumplings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rumplestiltskin (page history and authors); Rumpelstiltskin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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